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most citedCCAT-prime Collaboration: Science Goals and Forecasts with Prime-Cam on the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope

101 citations · 143 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

CCAT: The Prime-Cam Instrument for the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope -- Overview and Status

Eve M. Vavagiakis, Yuhan Wang, Lawrence T. Lin +33

Prime-Cam is a first-generation science instrument for the CCAT Observatory's six-meter aperture Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST), under construction at an elevation of 56…

astro-ph.IM2026

CCAT: Optical Design of the 410 GHz Prime-Cam Module

Tilak M. Patel, Tanner Buck, Anthony Huber +7

Prime-Cam is a first-generation instrument for the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST), enabling wide-field, multi-frequency observations for cosmology, line-intensity mappin…

astro-ph.IM2026

CCAT: a two-octave 1.024 GHz KID readout featuring an overlap-channel polyphase synthesis filter bank on RFSoC

Ruixuan, Xie, Adrian K. Sinclair +7

Next-generation submillimeter instruments require gigahertz-scale readout bandwidths to support the growing detector counts of large microwave kinetic inductance detector (KID) arr…

astro-ph.IM2026

CCAT: Design and Characterization of the 350 GHz Instrument Module

Ben Keller, Jordan Wheeler, Cody J. Duell +24

The CCAT Collaboration's Prime-Cam instrument will soon be deployed to the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) in Chile's Atacama Desert. Featuring prominently in Prime-Cam's…

astro-ph.IM2026

CCAT: Characterization of the first science-grade MKID array for the Prime-Cam 850 GHz module

Anthony I. Huber, Jordan Wheeler, James Burgoyne +16

The Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) is a 6-meter crossed-Dragone telescope developed by the CCAT collaboration. Sited at 5600 m on Cerro Chajnantor in the Atacama Plateau…

astro-ph.IM2026

CCAT: The 410 GHz camera module for FYST - design and testing of the MKID focal plane

Scott C. Chapman, Jordan Wheeler, Anthony Huber +17

Prime-Cam, the primary first-light instrument for the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) developed by the Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope (CCAT) Collaboration, will accom…

astro-ph.IM2026

CCAT: Silicon-Platelet Feedhorns for Submillimeter Wavelengths

Jason Austermann, James Beall, James R. Burgoyne +12

Silicon-platelet feedhorn arrays are an established technology at millimeter wavelengths that, for some applications, can provide significant advantages over traditional direct-mac…

astro-ph.IM2025

CCAT: Optical Responsivity, Noise, and Readout Optimization of KIDs for Prime-Cam

Eliza Gazda, Quintin Meyers, Steve K. Choi +18

The Prime-Cam instrument on the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) at the CCAT Observatory will conduct sensitive millimeter to submillimeter surveys for a range of astrophy…

astro-ph.IM2025

CCAT: Design, Implementation, and Testing of a System to Read Out over 10,000 280 GHz KIDs using RFSoC Electronics

Darshan A. Patel, Yuhan Wang, Cody J. Duell +27

Over the past decade, kinetic inductance detectors (KIDs) have emerged as a viable superconducting technology for astrophysics at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths. KIDs spa…

astro-ph.IM2025

CCAT: Magnetic Sensitivity Measurements of Kinetic Inductance Detectors

Benjamin J. Vaughan, Yuhan Wang, Cody J. Duell +16

The CCAT Observatory is a ground-based submillimeter to millimeter experiment located on Cerro Chajnantor in the Atacama Desert, at an altitude of 5,600 meters. CCAT features the 6…

astro-ph.IM2025

CCAT: Mod-Cam Cryogenic Performance and its Impact on 280 GHz KID Array Noise

Lawrence T. Lin, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Jason E. Austermann +27

The CCAT Observatory's Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) is designed to observe submillimeter astronomical signals with high precision, using receivers fielding state-of-th…

astro-ph.IM2025

CCAT: Mod-Cam Readout Overview and Flexible Stripline Performance

Ben Keller, Rodrigo Freundt, James R. Burgoyne +14

The CCAT Observatory's primary science instrument, Prime-Cam, is nearing readiness for deployment to the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) in the Atacama Desert in northern…

astro-ph.IM2025

CCAT: Multi-Rate DSP for Sub-mm Astronomy: Polyphase Synthesis Filter Bank on FPGA for Enhanced MKID Readout

Ruixuan, Xie, Adrian K. Sinclair +3

The next-generation mm/sub-mm/far-IR astronomy will in part be enabled by advanced digital signal processing (DSP) techniques. The Prime-Cam instrument of the Fred Young Submillime…

astro-ph.IM2024

CCAT: LED Mapping and Characterization of the 280 GHz TiN KID Array

Alicia Middleton, Steve K. Choi, Samantha Walker +21

Prime-Cam, one of the primary instruments for the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) developed by the CCAT Collaboration, will house up to seven instrument modules, with the…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

CCAT: A status update on the EoR-Spec instrument module for Prime-Cam

Rodrigo Freundt, Yaqiong Li, Doug Henke +15

The Epoch of Reionization Spectrometer (EoR-Spec) is an upcoming Line Intensity Mapping (LIM) instrument designed to study the evolution of the early universe (z = 3.5 to 8) by pro…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 2 cited

CCAT: Nonlinear effects in 280 GHz aluminum kinetic inductance detectors

Cody J. Duell, Jason Austermann, James R. Burgoyne +22

Prime-Cam, a first-generation science instrument for the Atacama-based Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope, is being built by the CCAT Collaboration to observe at millimeter and sub…

astro-ph.IM2024

CCAT: Prime-Cam Optics Overview and Status Update

Zachary B. Huber, Lawrence T. Lin, Eve M. Vavagiakis +17

Prime-Cam is a first-generation science instrument for the CCAT Observatory's six-meter aperture Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST). FYST's crossed-Dragone design provides h…

astro-ph.IM2024

CCAT: Detector Noise Limited Performance of the RFSoC-based Readout Electronics for mm/sub-mm/far-IR KIDs

Adrian K. Sinclair, James Burgoyne, Anthony I. Huber +16

The Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST), on Cerro Chajnantor in the Atacama desert of Chile, will conduct wide-field and small deep-field surveys of the sky with more than 10…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 2 cited

CCAT: Comparisons of 280 GHz TiN and Al Kinetic Inductance Detector Arrays

Cody J. Duell, Jason Austermann, James Beall +27

The CCAT Collaboration's six-meter Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope is scheduled to begin observing in the Chilean Atacama in 2025, targeting a variety of science goals throughou…

astro-ph.IM2023

Breaking the 10 mW/pixel Limit for Kinetic Inductance Detector Readout Electronics

Adrian K. Sinclair, James R. Burgoyne, Yaqiong Li +4

We demonstrate a prototype kinetic inductance detector (KID) readout system that uses less than 10 mW per pixel. The CCAT-prime RFSoC based readout is capable of reading four indep…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 1 cited

CCAT-prime: The 850 GHz camera for Prime-Cam on FYST

Scott C. Chapman, Anthony I. Huber, Adrian K. Sinclair +23

The Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) at the Cerro-Chajnantor Atacama Telescope prime (CCAT- prime) Facility will host Prime-Cam as a powerful, first generation camera with…

astro-ph.IM2022

CCAT-prime: Optical and cryogenic design of the 850 GHz module for Prime-Cam

Anthony I. Huber, Scott C. Chapman, Adrian K. Sinclair +14

Prime-Cam is a first-generation instrument for the Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope-prime (CCAT-prime) Facility. The 850GHz module for Prime-Cam will probe the highest frequen…

astro-ph.IM2022

CCAT-prime: RFSoC Based Readout for Frequency Multiplexed Kinetic Inductance Detectors

Adrian K. Sinclair, Ryan C. Stephenson, Cody A. Roberson +21

The Prime-Cam instrument on the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) is expected to be the largest deployment of millimeter and submillimeter sensitive kinetic inductance dete…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 1 cited

CCAT-prime: Design of the Mod-Cam receiver and 280 GHz MKID instrument module

Eve M. Vavagiakis, Cody J. Duell, Jason Austermann +33

Mod-Cam is a first light and commissioning instrument for the CCAT-prime project's six-meter aperture Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST), currently under construction at 560…